Team Role Blogpost

Our team has gotten together to deliver a video project to Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.  We have decided that Blake will be our project manager, Michael will be our Research/Audio, Paige will be our coder, Stephanie will handle our graphics, Nan will work on video editing/coding, and I will be handling the filming and editing of the video.  We have decided on these roles based of the first day of class and what projects and skills each individual is best at.  Personally I havent done very much this far on the project, but I will be filming very soon.  We have a basic story board of our video and are currently deciding on film locations and what we are going to be shooting.

What I learned in the dark

Being blind-folded can prove to be a troubling task for anyone.  It requires you to put trust and faith into your team mates and listen to their directions.  You have to trust that they are making the right decisions and that they are pretty much in control of what you are doing.  This is one thing that I took away from this project.  I feel this demonstration allowed my team to trust each other in making the right directions for everyone.  I believe that our performance as a team was excellent.  There wasn't one second where someone got hurt or really wasn't doing the right thing, aside from one incident of washing the hose.  There also weren't any falls or injuries and nothing was broken.  As far as a group direction goes I believe this demonstration was handled by two people at a time during the process.  Instead of everyone talking over one another, or being pulled out, we took turns communicating with the person who was blind folded to accomplish the task.  I felt like we started to work as a team right from the beginning of the task.  We did have some dominant people take the reigns  a couple of times, but when Beth took them out others had to come in and pick up the slack to accomplish the task. Overall I believe the boys did a little bit better job communicating to one another, just because we arrived there earlier and got to hear the whole task at hand, but the girls did well on the demonstration as well.  At the end of the blind folded demonstration we were asked to finish the rest of the cart, and this is where I believe that we came together as a team without any communication.  Our personalities knew that we had to accomplish the task and had very little time, so we effectively broke into positions and had an assembly line cleaning station going on.  There wasn't one person doing anymore work than the other and we were working efficiently to complete the task.  Overall this assignment has really brought us closer as a group and helped us communicate better as a team.